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  1. Re:Duke Nukem VR on Oculus Rift Launching In Q1 2016 · · Score: 1

    And just 20 years later, we'll have fusion power!

  2. Re:I want this to be true, but... on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    Only if you then throw it out the back.

  3. Re:Common sense here folks on Surgeon Swears Human Head Transplant Isn't a 'Metal Gear Solid' Publicity Stunt · · Score: 1

    So, all quadriplegics immediately die, do they?
    Christopher Reeve survived for almost 10 years using an automatic ventilator, and others like him have survived much longer.

  4. Re:A first step on Tesla To Announce Battery-Based Energy Storage For Homes · · Score: 1

    Or, equally likely, Santa Claus brings you a new fusion generator.

  5. Re: and... on Tesla To Announce Battery-Based Energy Storage For Homes · · Score: 1

    All whole-house (or whole-business) generators that I know of run on natural gas. Hence no fuel problems and no need to refill. In areas that don't have NG, propane is used from a big tank that also serves for heating.

  6. Re:The real question here on Einstein and Schrodinger's Quest for a Unified Theory led to a Titanic Clash · · Score: 1

    And your "understanding" is based on what?
    If you think that sentience and QM have anything to do with each other, then you are living in fantasy land.
    QM has a precise mathematical description, while the concept of "sentience" has never been defined in any meaningful sense.

  7. Re:Maybe because the movies were not that good? on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 2

    Did you see Witness?
    That was excellent acting.

  8. Re:I might get one... on Microsoft Announces Surface 3 Tablet · · Score: 1

    As soon as I installed Win 10, I said to myself:
    "Thank God, I have Win 7 back".

  9. Re:Conditional recording on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 1

    Wrong.
    Both ferry captains and bus drivers are video monitored whenever they are on duty.

  10. Re:And what good would it do? on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 1

    Somehow I think professional aircrash investigators are accustomed to seeing much more gruesome things than a cockpit video.

  11. Re:And what good would it do? on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How the hell is anyone entitled to privacy while on duty?
    That is a fundamentally stupid idea.

    Fuck the pilot's union.

  12. Re:Obligatory XKCD on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1
    They have to find you and determine if you are worth their trouble first.
    1. Bank President, NORAD commander, etc. -> worth doing
    2. typical Slashdotter ->not worth doing.
  13. Re:xkcd... on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1

    Or instead of Hamlet, take a random book of poetry off the shelf in the "Obscure Poets" section of a library, go to a random page, then memorize the poem on that page. Take first letter of the first word, second letter of the second word, etc. Make up a capitalization pattern, add a few numbers, then you have it.

    With the dice list, you are completely dependant on the crackers not knowing that you used it, and that makes the entropy calculations shear nonsense.

  14. Re:There is a huge flaw to this.... on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1

    Conclusion: don't use a common (i.e. diceware) word list. Create your own.

  15. Re:Has anyone looked at the Pilot? on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    The pilot was in the bathroom, then pounded on the cockpit door to be let it while the copilot drove the plane into a mountainside.
    So, no.

  16. Re:people are going to be saying on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1
    I do:

    Hmm, I think I'll kill myself and everybody on this plane. That's bound to solve my problems!

  17. Re:Be careful of the term "terrorist attack" on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    That's protocol in the U.S., not in Europe.

  18. Re:Do robots need behaviour laws. Of course. on Do Robots Need Behavioral 'Laws' For Interacting With Other Robots? · · Score: 1

    I assumed this was a gag at first.
    It's actually some nutcase's website.

  19. Re:Modified Three laws on Do Robots Need Behavioral 'Laws' For Interacting With Other Robots? · · Score: 1

    Or because we are prone to writing idiotic crap like the OP.

  20. Re:Heisenberg compensator ... on Researchers Identify 'Tipping Point' Between Quantum and Classical Worlds · · Score: 1

    Exactly.
    QA is well understood, well tested, well confirmed science but only when expressed mathematically.
    As soon as we try to transform the math into English words like "wave", "particle" or "observer", we lose all the precision needed to adequately describe how QA works.

  21. Re:Ultracompetent robots on Bring On the Boring Robots · · Score: 1

    Yeah, once you get the trick of it.

    He will get the trick of it.
    Right after fusion power is perfected, and an honest congress is elected.

  22. Re:Not comprehensive on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Introduces the Doomsday Dashboard · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ah, Lonny.*
    Same old head-in-the-sand stupidity as always.
    - - - - - - -
    "Jane Q. Public" is actually a man named Lonny Eachus.

  23. Re:Stupid Question on How Space Can Expand Faster Than the Speed of Light · · Score: 1
    Maybe you didn't notice that Puff_Of_Hot_Air said

    If you could travel at the speed of light, then you could reach anywhere in the universe in 0 relative (to you) time?

    The answer is yes.
    For photons (the only thing that can travel at the speed of light) the passage of time is non-existent.

  24. Re:Stupid Question on How Space Can Expand Faster Than the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    What if the "starship" consisted of a 100 km diameter asteroid with a propulsion engine built on its surface?
    A big rock can take a lot of abuse.

    Also, the mass of the asteroid could be used as fuel for the engine (assuming that we can convert its mass directly into energy).

  25. Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    When can we kick open the doors to Yucca Mountain and start building the new reactor fleet?

    As soon as you manage to convince a group of investors that picking up the tab for one of the poorest risk-to-profit industries in the world is a good idea.